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PTERODECTA; CLEOSIRIS; AGONIS; CALLIDULA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
atkinsoni. H. atkinsoni Mr. (57c). Blackish-brown, with a slight golden reflection; through the forewing a 
band of white spots interrupted by the median; a minute white punctiform spot before the apical quarter of 
each wing. From Sikkim and Burmah; apparently not common. 
2. Genus: I*teroclecta Btlr. 
Recognizable by the stunted apex of the forewing. For further particulars comp. Vol. II, p. 207. Of 
the two palearctic species dealt with there, one also occurs in the Indo-Australian region. 
anchora. p. anchora Btlr. (51 d). To the figure of the upper surface in Vol. II, t. 22 f, we add here that of 
the under surface. In the palearctic part of Cashmir and also in the Indian Himalaya. The specimen figured 
is from Sikkim. 
3. Genus: Clleosiris Bsd. 
The only species of this genus having formerly been denominated Tetragonus Hbn.-G. which name 
is older, but has become obsolete, is somewhat larger than the Pterodecta , but it has quite similar hindwings, 
being angular in the centre of the margin, and the forewing is not gnawed out at the apex but pointed, in the 
$ sometimes a little ensiform. 
catamita. C. catamita Hbn.-G. (51 cl). Above quite uni-coloured dark brown, or with more or less distini races 
of a yellowish, dark dusted, often hardly noticeable oblique band extending from the costa behind the cell 
of the forewing to the anal angle, but dying away before the submedian fold. Under surface lioney-coloured 
or greyish-yellow, with a white-centred discal dot and greyish-red transverse chains of minute hooks and shades. 
major. •—- ab. major Mr. (51 d) refers to larger specimens being common in North India, but singly met with also 
fasciata. in other parts of the range. -—- ab. fasciata Mr. (51 d) are specimens with a particularly well developed 
oblique band of the forewing, which are common in Borneo and the Philippines. — From Ceylon and S ikki m 
across the Nicobars and Andamans through Indo-China to the Philippines, and in the Sunda Islands; mostly 
common. 
4. Genus: Agonis Fldr. 
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Chiefly distinguished from the Cleosiris by the forewing being rounded at the apex, and the absence 
of the tooth in the centre of the margin on the hindwing. Both wings beneath with a wliite-pupilled 8-mark 
in the centre. 
lycaenoides. A. lycaenoides Fldr. (51 d) above uni-coloured brown, only the cell-end of the forewing somewhat 
darkened, and the ground-colour around it somewhat lighter yellowish. Under surface orange-yellow with 
3 dark dentate lines and a wliite-pupilled 8 at the cell-end; in the cell of the forewing besides 2 single, white- 
pupilled dots. Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes; I captured the species in Singapore, at the end of January, 
on an open space surrounded by dense brushwood, where the insects were swarming in numbers. 
5. Genus: Callidula Hbn. (Dalanga Hew.). 
Forewing with a feebly angular apex, hindwing with a rounded margin sometimes feebly projecting 
in the centre of it. From the preceding genus it chiefly differs by the very short last palpal joint and by the 
1st and 2nd subcostal veins of the forewing running separately, whereas in Agonis the 2nd is forked with 
the 3rd and 4th. About half a dozen species are known, with a mostly very characteristical under surface, 
distributed from the Himalaya through Indo-China and across the Malayan Islands to the Philippines. 
petavia. C. petavia Stoll (51 e). Easily recognizable by the purple colouring beneath only leaving free the 
broad orange band of the forewing. The G hindwing shows a black scent-pad. From the Moluccas where the 
minor, species is common in some places. - —- minor Mr. is the Malaccan form, much smaller, and the purple colour 
sakuni. beneath is replaced by a duller yellowish-red. The orange band of the forewing is mostly narrower. — sakuni 
Horsf. has beneath a quite honey-yellow ground-colour faintly speckled with black; from the Himalaya, Java 
abisara. and Borneo. -—- abisara Btlr. is still somewhat smaller than sakuni, darker, the band of the forewing still narrow¬ 
er, more regular, and at its posterior end more rounded; the under surface is more brightly speckled with 
niasica. black, and darker. Malacca. -—• niasica Pag. (= sumatrensis Pag.) (51 e), from Nias, also has a darker, more 
reddish-yellow under surface with more abundant dark striae, and the band of the forewing is much broader 
luzonica. than in abisara. — luzonica Pag. (= petavia var. Snip.) (51 e) has the band in the <$ forewing much narrower 
and at both its ends somewhat pointed; in the $ the hindwing beneath is very much intermixed with whitish 
batjanensis. spots; Philippines, Celebes. — batjanensis Pag., from the Island of Batjan, is still larger and more variegated 
